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L. s. SAMPSON.

CUFF HOLDER.

No. 484,246. Patented Oct. 11,1892.

ATTORNEYS;

UNI ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWVIS S. SAMPSON, OF YORK, N. Y.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,246, dated October 11, 1892.

Application filed Au u t 11, 1891. Serial No. 402,378. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS S. SAMPSON, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gui-Holders, of which the fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in cuff-holders, and has for its object to provide a device whereby the ordinary reversible cufi may be expeditiously and effectively converted for use as a link-cuff, and also whereby when the cuff is to be used in the manner in which reversible ends are ordinarily employed the device may be so manipulated that the holder may be as applicable as when the cufi is to be used in connection with linkbuttons.

The invention consists in the novel con struction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully. set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a reversible cufi having the device applied thereto, holding said cuff in a position to receive a link-button. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a reversible cuff used in the ordinary manner and illustrating the application of the device thereto; and Fig. 3 is an edge View of the device, the position of said device being similar to that illustrated in Fig. 2.

The cufi A is the ordinary reversible cuff, and the device adapted to be used in connection with this cuff consists of a body-section 10, preferably made in the shape of a fiat bar, the lower end of which body-section is provided with a clasp 11, preferably spring-controlled; but said clasp may be of any suitable or desired construction. The clasp illustrated consistsof two pivotally-connected and springactuated jaws having teeth at one end, the said teeth being normally held in an interlocking position by a spiral sprin At or near the upper end of the body-section 10 of the device an arm 12 is centrally pivoted, whereby the arm when located transversely of the body extends beyond each side thereof at an angle, preferably a right angle, to the said side edges; but the arm is free to move upon its pivot 13, and therefore may be carried at one end over upon the body in a position to render it parallel with the body, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. At or near each end of the arm 12 a button 14 is located; or instead of the button any equivalent thereof may be employed. Preferably, however, a button is used, and consists of a shank which is attached to the arm and a head secured to or integral with the shank.

When it is desired to use the reversible end A as a link-cufithat is, to accommodate a link-button B, as shown in Fig. 1the arm 12 is carried to aposition transversely of and at a right angle to the body 10 and one button 14 is passed through a buttonhole of the cuff at one end and the other button through the opposite buttonhole at the same end. The device when so applied will hold the opposed edges of the cuff the regulation distance apart, and the link sleeve-button B may be readily and properly applied at the buttonholes located at the opposite end of the cufi. If it is desired to Wear the reversible cuff in the ordinary manner, the arm 12 is carried over upon the body-section 10 parallel therewith, and the uppermost button is passed through both of the buttonholes of the cuff at one end when the buttonholes are in registry, as shown in Fig. ,2. In either method of applying the device the clip or clasp 11' is employed to secure the device, and wit-h it the cufl, to the sleeve of the shirt.

It will be observed that the device is exceedingly simple and capable of convenient and expeditious manipulation and that through the medium of the device an ordinary reversible cuif may be worn in the usual manner or instantly converted into use as a link-cuff.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1-. A cuff-fastener comprisinga longitudinal bar provided at one end with means for attachment to a sleeve and at its opposite end with a swinging member pivoted between its ends to the bar to be swung into parallelism therewith or at right angles thereto and fastenings at opposite ends of the swinging near-its extremities, asvand for the purpose memlfrysnbstasntiajlly as set forth. specified.

2. s an improved article of manufacture, a cuff-holder comprising a, body-section hav- LEWIS SAMPSON 5 ing a clip attached. at one end and an arm \Vitnesses:

pivoted near its center at the opposite end WARREN B. HUToHINsoN, the said arm being provided with buttons 'E.M.CLARK. 

